I Just Lost My Spouse. Where Are They Now? The Righteous Requirement of the Law. How to Prevent High Blood Pressure with Diet.

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I Just Lost My Spouse. Where Are They Now?

“A lost loved one is in the grave, unconscious and waiting for the resurrection to life promised by God, when they will have the chance to be reunited with their friends and family.

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People who did not know Christ will indeed stand up once more, in a physical life, and have an opportunity to understand who God and Christ are and what their plan for all humanity is.

The apostle Paul explains what happens when a believer dies: “But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14). Here, we know the term "fallen asleep" is referring to death because he contrasts those who are asleep with "those who are alive and remain" (1 Thessalonians 4:15; compare Revelation 6:9-11). Then those in the faith who are still alive when Christ returns will be resurrected in the next instant after Christ returns (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

What is the kind of life that they will be resurrected to? It is life as a spirit being, rather than as a physical being (1 Corinthians 15:42-51; compare 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, Revelation 11:15).

What about those who didn’t die “in Christ”? Are these people unsaved and condemned to burn forever in torment? No. For people not in this first resurrection, there is a second resurrection. It is described in Revelation: “I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for proclaiming the word of God . . . They all came to life again, and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.)” (Revelation 20:4-5, New Living Translation).

Notice the phrase “the rest of the dead.” Who are these people who are resurrected at the end of the thousand years? Quite simply, they are all those who are not in the first resurrection. So who is that? It is the vast majority of humanity that has ever lived, who never truly knew or understood who God is, or what his plan for man is. Most significantly, notice that the Bible says these people will live again!

Jesus Christ spoke about this second resurrection as well. In Matthew 12:38-42, Christ condemns the religious leaders of His day, saying: “The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.” Christ says these people will be resurrected (the word for "rise up" here is the same root word for resurrection we read earlier in Revelation 20:5).

What an amazing concept! People who did not know Christ will indeed stand up once more, in a physical life, and have an opportunity to understand who God and Christ are and what their plan for all humanity is. The only way for this to be possible—for people who lived literally many hundreds of years apart to live again at the same time—is for God to resurrect all of them at the same time.

The Scriptures are plain about the fact that all people have only one chance at salvation. However, a second chance at life is not the same as a second chance at salvation. Coming to life again will enable them to have their only chance for salvation. To understand more about what happens after death, read What Happens After Death? and Heaven and Hell: What Does the Bible Really Teach?        From: https://www.ucg.org/bible-study-tools/bible-questions-and-answers/i-just-lost-my-spouse-where-are-they-now

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The Righteous Requirement of the Law

Romans 8:4

“That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

God is a God of righteousness and justice. His laws are perfect and beneficial, and breaking them is completely opposite of God’s way of love. Sin produces suffering and death.

Fulfilling the righteous requirements of the law includes obeying God’s law with the help of God’s Holy Spirit, through which Jesus Christ lives in us and writes God’s laws on our hearts and minds. Christ also paid the death penalty for our sins, since God’s righteous justice also requires the shedding of blood for sin.”      For more about righteousness, see “Slaves of Sin or Slaves of Righteousness?””    From: https://lifehopeandtruth.com/bible/blog/the-righteous-requirement-of-the-law/?

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How to Prevent High Blood Pressure with Diet

Transcript of YouTube: https://youtu.be/Eg7DLVYwcDs

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by Katie Schloer.

“High blood pressure, the #1 killer risk factor in the world, may be eliminated with a healthy enough diet.

The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death ever undertaken allows us to answer questions like: how many lives could we save if people cut back on soda? The answer? Our best estimate: 299,521. Soda isn’t just bad because it’s empty calories, so it’s not a health-promoting food. It appears to be an actively death-promoting food. Of course not as deadly as bacon, bologna, ham, or hot dogs: 800,000 deaths every year, killing twice as many women as domestic violence; five times more people than all illegal drugs combined.

But eating more whole grains could save 1.7 million lives every year; more vegetables, 1.8 million lives. If only we ate more nuts and seeds, 2.5 million lives saved. But fruit is apparently what the world needs most (they didn’t look at beans): 4.9 million lives hang in the balance every year, and the cure is not drugs or vaccines; the cure is fruit.

One reason why plant-based diets can save so many millions is because the #1 killer risk factor in the world is high blood pressure, laying to waste nine million people, year after year.

In the United States, high blood pressure affects nearly 78 million—that’s one in three of us, and as we age, our pressures get higher and higher, such that by age 60, it strikes more than half. If it affects most of us when we get older, maybe it’s less a disease, and more just a natural, inevitable consequence of aging? No. We’ve known for nearly a century that high blood pressure need never occur. Researchers measured the blood pressure of a thousand people in rural Kenya who ate a diet centered around whole plant foods. Whole grains, beans, vegetables, fruit, and dark green leafies.

Up until age 40, the blood pressures of rural Africans were about the same as Europeans and Americans, down around 120 over 80, but as Westerners age, their pressures creep up such that by age 60, the average person is hypertensive, exceeding 140 over 90. But what about those not following the Western diet? Their pressures improved with age; not only did they not develop hypertension, their blood pressures actually got better.

The whole 140 over 90 cutoff is arbitrary. Just like studies show that the lower the cholesterol the better, there’s really no safe cholesterol level above about 150. Blood pressure studies also support the “lower the better” approach to blood pressure reduction. Even people who start out with blood pressure under 120 over 80 appear to benefit from blood pressure reduction. But is it possible to get blood pressures under 110 over 70? It’s not just possible; it’s normal, for those eating healthy enough diets.

Over two years at a rural Kenyan hospital, 1,800 patients were admitted. How many cases of high blood pressure did they find? Zero. Wow, so they must have had low rates of heart disease. No, they had no rates of heart disease. Not low risk, no risk. Not a single case of arteriosclerosis—our #1 killer—was found.”     From: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-prevent-high-blood-pressure-with-diet/

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